Comprehensive Reading List P-Z

Ann Packer
The Children's Crusade
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
Elaine Pagels
Gnostic Gospels
The Origin of Satan
Grace Paley
Later the Same Day
Michael Palin
Hemingway's Chair
Felix J. Palma
The Map of Time
Ellen Pall
Among the Ginzburgs
Dexter Palmer
Version Control
Orhan Pamuk
My Name is Red
Snow
Gail Parent
Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York
Sara Paretsky
Indemnity Only
Dorothy Parker
The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker
Anu Partanen
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Ann Patchett
The Dutch House
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
The Magician's Assistant
The Patron Saint of Liars
Truth and Beauty
Jill Paton Walsh
Knowledge of Angels
Victoria Patterson
This Vacant Paradise
Jim Paul
Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots
Nancy Peacock
A Broom of One's Own
Life Without Water
Tim Pears
Disputed Land
T.R. Pearson
A Short History of a Small Place (twice)
Lydia Peelle
Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing
Cathie Pelletier
Beaming Sonny Home
The Bubble Reputation
The Funeral Makers
A Marriage Made in Woodstock
Daniel Pennac
Better Than Life
Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling
Irene M. Pepperberg
Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Walker Percy
Lancelot
The Last Gentleman (twice)
Lost in the Cosmos
Love in the Ruins
The Moviegoer (twice)
The Second Coming
The Thanatos Syndrome
Eleanor Perenyi
More Was Lost: A Memoir
Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Club Dumas
Elliot Perlman
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Tom Perrotta
Little Children
Sarah Perry
The Essex Serpent
Melmoth
Marisha Pessl
Night Film
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Ann Petry
The Street
Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses
Gin Phillips
The Well and the Mine
Helen Phillips
The Need
Jayne Anne Phillips
Lark and Termite
Kate Phillips
White Rabbit
Thomas Pierce
The Afterlives
Mary Pipher
Reviving Ophelia
John Pipkin
Woodsburner
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
The Bell Jar (twice)
Plato
Selected Myths
Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Caffeine
Katherine Anne Porter
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Chaim Potok
The Chosen
The Promise
Max Porter
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Charles Portis
The Dog of the South
True Grit (twice)
Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art
The Military Philosophers
Books Do Furnish a Room
Temporary Kings
Hearing Secret Harmonies
A Question of Upbringing
A Buyer's Market
The Acceptance World
At Lady Molly's
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
The Kindly Ones
The Valley of Bones
Dannye Romine Powell
At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home
Parting the Curtains
Dawn Powell
Angels on Toast
Dance Night
Sophie Powell
The Mushroom Man
Charles T. Powers
In the Memory of the Forest
Richard Powers
The Echo Maker
Generosity
The Overstory
Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Christopher Priest
The Adjacent
David A. Price
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
Reynolds Price
Blue Calhoun
A Generous Man
Good Hearts
A Long and Happy Life
The Tongues of Angels
Walking Lessons
Cherie Priest
Boneshaker
Francine Prose
Blue Angel
Goldengrove
Hunters and Gatherers
The Peaceable Kingdom
Reading Like a Writer
E. Annie Proulx
The Shipping News
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Eric Puchner
Model Home
Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Plenty of Ponies (twice, at least)
Six Ponies
Philip Pullman
La Belle Sauvage
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Diane Purkiss
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins and Other Troublesome Things
Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Jane and Prudence
David Quammen
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
Anna Quindlen
Black and Blue
How Reading Changed My Life
One True Thing
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
The Story of B
Jonathan Rabin
Waxwings
Donald Rackin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Tom Rackman
Basket of Deplorables
The Imperfectionists
Louise Rafkin
Other People's Dirt
Zahia Rahmani
"Muslim": a novel
Hannu Rajaniemi
The Quantum Thief
Ayn Rand
Anthem
Marta Randall
Islands
Ron Rash
Burning Bright: Stories
The Cove
One Foot in Eden
Shannon Ravenael, ed.
New Stories from the South: 1993
Thomas Rayfiel
Split-Levels
P. Carey Reid
Swimming in the Starry River
Frederick Reiken
The Lost Legends of New Jersey
The Odd Sea
Sheri Reynolds
A Gracious Plenty
The Rapture of Canaan
Anne Rice
Interview With a Vampire
Ben Rice
Pobby and Dingan
Luanne Rice
Crazy in Love
Louise Dickinson Rich
We Took to the Woods
Emma Richler
Feed My Dear Dogs
Sister Crazy
Andrew Ridker
The Altruists

Martin Riker
Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return
Susan Rivers
The Second Ms. Hockaday

Keena Roberts
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
Don Robertson
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
James Robertson
And the Land Lay Still
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Kim Stanley Robinson
2312
Aurora
New York 2140
Red Mars
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Housekeeping
Roxana Robinson
Cost
Sparta
Sweetwater
Mary Robison
Believe Them
Elizabeth Frankie Rollins
The Sin Eater and Other Stories
Sally Rooney
Normal People
Paul Rosa
Idiot Letters
Phyllis Rose
The Year of Reading Proust
Jonathan Rosen
Joy Comes in the Morning
Judith Rossner
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Henry Roth
Call It Sleep
Philip Roth
American Pastoral
Everyman
Goodbye, Columbus
The Human Stain
The Plot Against America
Portnoy's Complaint
Claire Holden Rothman
My October
Josephine Rowe
A Loving, Faithful Animal
Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl
Russell Rowland
In Open Spaces
J.K. Rowling
The Cuckoo's Calling (as Robert Galbraith)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel's Game
Juan Rulfo
Pedro Paramo
Norman Rush
Mating
Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Midnight's Children
Peter Rushforth
A Dead Language
Pinkerton's Sister
Emily Ruskovich
Idaho
Helen Russell
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Mary Doria Russell
Children of God
Doc
Dreamers of the Day
The Sparrow
Karen Russell
Sleep Donation
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Richard Russo
Best American Short Stories 2010, editor
Bridge of Sighs
Empire Falls
Everybody's Fool
Nobody's Fool
Sh*tshow
Straight Man
Donal Ryan
The Spinning Heart
Vita Sackville-West
The Easter Party
Jeanne Safer
The Normal One: Life With a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
Sandra K. Sagala and JoAnne M. Bagwell
Alias Smith and Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
Lorna Sage
Bad Blood
H.F. Saint
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
Lauren St. John
Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye (multiple times)
Franny and Zooey (twice)
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction (twice)
Nine Stories
Mark Salzman
Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
Lying Awake
Ferrol Sams
Run With the Horsemen
George Sand
Indiana
B. W. Sandefur
Alias Smith and Jones: The Reformation of Harry Briscoe (script)
Dori Sanders
Clover
Robert M. Sapolsky
Monkeyluv
A Primate's Memoir
Sapphire
Push
Jose Saramago
Baltasar and Blimunda
Cain
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Jean-Paul Sarte
No Exit (twice)
May Sarton
The Small Room
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
George Saunders
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Fox 8
In Persuasion Nation
Lila Savage
Say Say Say
Dorothy Sayers
Gaudy Night
Valerie Sayers
Brain Fever
Due East
How I Got Him Back
Who Do You Love
Helen Scales
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality
Jack Schaefer
Shane
Timothy Schaffert
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
Elissa Schappell
Use Me
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
Identical Strangers
Anakana Schofield
Bina
Julie Schumacher
The Shakespeare Requirement
Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream
Kathryn Schwille
What Luck, This Life
Moacyr Scliar
Max and the Cats
Audrey Schulman
Theory of Bastards
Three Weeks in December
Bruno Schulz
The Street of Crocodiles
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Acquainted With the Night and Other Stories
Rough Strife
Cathleen Schine
Alice in Bed
The Evolution of Jane
The Grammarians
The Love Letter
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Lucky
David Sedaris
Barrel Fever
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Naked
Jaroslav Seifert
The Casting of Bells
Carolyn See
Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America
The Handyman
Eric Segal
Love Story
Susan Sellers
Vanessa and Virginia
Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
Mary Lee Settle
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
Anna Sewall
Black Beauty (three times)
Anne Sexton
The Awful Rowing Toward God
Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels
Peter Shaffer
Equus (three times)
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Hamlet (multiple times)
Julius Caesar (three times)
King Henry IV, Part I
King Lear (twice)
King Richard II
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth (twice)
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello (twice)
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew (twice)
The Tempest (three times)
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale
Paula Sharp
The Woman Who Was Not All There
Matthew Sharpe
The Sleeping Father
Claudia Shear
Blown Sideways Through Life
Gail Sheehy
The Silent Passage
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Holding On to Nothing
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (twice)
Sandi Kahn Shelton
You Might as Well Laugh
David Shenk
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Peng Shepherd
The Book of M
R. C. Sherriff
The Hopkins Manuscript
Carol Shields
The Box Garden
Happenstance
Larry's Party
Republic of Love
Small Ceremonies
Stone Diaries
Swann
Unless
Various Miracles
Louise Shivers
Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (twice)
A Whistling Woman
Russell Shorto
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
Lionel Shriver
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
A Perfectly Good Family
Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story
Nevil Shute
On the Beach
Anne Rivers Siddons
The House Next Door
Outer Banks
Up Island
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
I Remember You
Last Rituals
My Soul to Take
Joan Silber
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes
Fools
Ideas of Heaven
Improvement
Georges Simenon
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Pedigree
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
The Terror
Scott Simon
Pretty Birds
Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Mona Simpson
Anywhere But Here
Casebook
My Hollywood
Off Keck Road
Johanna Sinisalo
The Core of the Sun
Troll: A Love Story
Zecharia Sitchin
The 12th Planet
Curtis Sittenfeld
Rodham
Sjon
CoDex 1962
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Warren Slesinger, ed.
The Whole Story: Editors on Fiction
Anna Smail
The Chimes
Elizabeth Smart
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
John Smelcer
The Raven

Jane Smiley
The Age of Grief
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Duplicate Keys
Early Warning
The Georges and the Jewels
Horse Heaven
Moo
Ordinary Love and Good Will
Private Life
Some Luck
A Thousand Acres
Alexis M. Smith
Glaciers
Ali Smith
Autumn
The Accidental
Hotel World
Spring
There but for the
The Whole Story and Other Stories
Winter
Betty Smith
Joy in the Morning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Diane Smith
Letters from Yellowstone
Pictures from an Expedition
Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle
Dominic Smith
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Emma Smith
The Far Cry
Jeffery Smith
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia
Lee Smith
Black Mountain Breakdown
Cakewalk and Other Stories
The Christmas Letters
The Devil's Dream
Family Linen (twice)
Fancy Strut (twice)
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
News of the Spirit
Saving Grace
Tom Rob Smith
Child 44
Stevie Smith
Novel on Yellow Paper
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
Katharine Smyth
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Dava Sobel
Longitude
Susan Sontag
In America
Sophocles
Antigone
Oedipus Rex (twice)
Ahdaf Soueif
The Map of Love
Muriel Spark
The Abbess of Crewe
The Comforters
Doctors of Philosophy
The Driver's Seat
The Finishing School
Memento Mori
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (twice)
Reality and Dreams
Elizabeth Spencer
Starting Over
John Shelby Spong
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
E. C. Spykman
A Lemon and a Star (multiple times)
The Wild Angel (multiple times)
Terrible, Horrible Edie (multiple times)
Edie on the Warpath (multiple times)
Jean Stafford
Collected Stories
The Mountain Lion
Kim Stafford
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir
Nicole Stansbury
Places to Look For a Mother
Claude and Michele Stanush
All Honest Men
Domenico Starnone
Trick
Christina Stead
For Love Alone
The Little Hotel
The Man Who Loved Children
The People With the Dogs
Jon Kalman Stefansson
The Sorrow of Angels
Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things
Angle of Repose
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Crossing to Safety
The Spectator Bird
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
The Long Valley
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Sweet Thursday
The Winter of Our Discontent
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
April Stevens
Angel Angel
Nell Stevens
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nina Stibbe
Man at the Helm
Adalbert Stifter
Rock Crystal
Bram Stoker
Dracula
Irving Stone
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Robert Stone, ed.
Best American Short Stories: 1993
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly
Julia Strachey
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Emma Straub
All Adults Here

Noel Streatfeild
Saplings
Elizabeth Strout
Abide with Me
Amy and Isabelle
Anything is Possible
The Burgess Boys
My Name is Lucy Barton
Olive Kitteridge
Olive, Again
Sarah Payne Stuart
Men in Trouble
My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness and the Family of Robert Lowell
Alexandra Styron
Reading My Father
William Styron
Darkness Visible (twice)
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Lie Down in Darkness
Frank J. Sulloway
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
Melanie Sumner
Polite Society
The School of Beauty and Charm
Christina Sunley
The Tricking of Freya
Mark Swartz
Instant Karma
Julia Sweeney
God Said, "Ha!"
Tom Sweterlitsch
The Gone World
Marly Swick
Paper Wings
Antal Szerb
Journey by Moonlight
Amy Tan
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife
Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
Household Gods
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
The Little Friend
The Secret History
Maria Tatar
Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Gary Taubes
The Case for Keto

Elizabeth Taylor
At Mrs. Lippincote's
Blaming
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Palladian
The Soul of Kindness
The Wedding Group
M. Glenn Taylor
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Peter Taylor
A Summons to Memphis
Sara Teasdale
x
Emma Tennant
Sylvia and Ted
Marcel Theroux
Strange Bodies
Angela Thirkell
Cheerfulness Breaks In
The Demon in the House
High Rising
James Alexander Thom
Follow the River
Abigail Thomas
An Actual Life
Getting Over Tom
Herb's Pajamas
Eliza Thomas
The Road Home
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Hidden Life of Dogs
Joan Thomas
Curiosity
Scarlett Thomas
The End of Mr. Y
Our Tragic Universe
PopCo
The Seed Collectors
Jean Thompson
The Year We Left Home
Henry David Thoreau
"Civil Disobedience"
Walden
Walking
Rufi Thorpe
The Girls from Corona del Mar
James Thurber
Fables for Our Time
My Life and Hard Times (three times)
My World and Welcome to It
Ann Thwaite
A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie the Pooh
Mirian Toews
All My Puny Sorrows
The Flying Troutmans
Colm Toibin
The Master
Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Death of Ivan Ilyich
War and Peace
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen: A Life
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Amor Towles
You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Sue Townsend
The Adrian Mole Diaries
Adrian Mole: The Lost Years
Patrick Tracey
Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
Barbara Trapido
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Juggling
Temples of Delight
The Travelling Hornplayer
Rose Tremain
Restoration
William Trevor
Death in Summer
David Treuer
The Translation of Dr Apelles
Anthony Trollope
The American Senator
Barchester Towers
The Bertrams
Can You Forgive Her?
The Claverings
The Eustace Diamonds
He Knew He Was Right
Is He Popenjoy?
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
Miss Mackenzie
Phineas Finn
The Vicar of Bullhampton
The Warden
The Way We Live Now
Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You
Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun
Mary Trump
Too Much and Never Enough
Danielle Trussoni
Angelology
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (twice)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Gilded Age
Life on the Mississippi
Roughing It, vol. I
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist (multiple times)
The Amateur Marriage
Back When We Were Grownups
The Beginner's Goodbye
Breathing Lessons (multiple times)
Celestial Navigation (multiple times)
Clock Dance
The Clock Winder (multiple times)
Digging to America
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (multiple times)
Earthly Possessions (multiple times)
Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
If Morning Ever Comes (three times)
Ladder of Years (twice)
Morgan's Passing (multiple times)
Noah's Compass
A Patchwork Planet
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Saint Maybe (twice)
A Slipping Down Life (multiple times)
Searching for Caleb (multiple times)
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Tin Can Tree (twice)
Tumble Tower (multiple times)
Vinegar Girl
Brady Udall
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Brenda Ueland
If You Want to Write
Dubravka Ugresic
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
David L. Ulin
The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
Jack Underwood
Happiness
Sigrid Undset
The Wreath
Barry Unsworth
Morality Play
Priscila Uppal
The Divine Economy of Salvation
John Updike
The Centaur (twice)
Couples (twice)
In the Beauty of the Lilies
Marry Me
A Month of Sundays
Pigeon Feathers
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit, Run
Roger's Version
Too Far to Go
Witches of Eastwick
Anne Ursu
The Disapparation of James
Spilling Clarence
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Englishman's Boy
The Last Crossing
A Good Man
David Vann
Goat Mountain
Laura Van Den Berg
Find Me
Dirck Van Sickle
Montana Gothic
Katherena Vermette
The Break
Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone
John Vernon
A Book of Reasons
Salley Vickers
Instances of the Number 3
Miss Garnet's Angel
Nina Vida
The Texicans
Gore Vidal
Burr
Judith Viorst
Necessary Losses
Willy Vlautin
Lean on Pete
Patricia Volk
To My Dearest Friends
Elizabeth von Arnim
The Solitary Summer
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Cat's Cradle
Galapagos
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Player Piano
Sirens of Titan
Slapstick
Slaughterhouse - Five (twice)
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Welcome to the Monkey House
Mark Vonnegut
The Eden Express
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
Sarah Vowell
Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
Susan Vreeland
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Kate Walbert
The Gardens of Kyoto
Our Kind
Ayelet Waldman
Nursery Crimes
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Elaine Walker
The Horses
James Robert Waller
Bridges of Madison County
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Jo Walton
Among Others
Lifelode
Esme Weijun Wang
The Collected Schizophrenias
Annie Ward
Beautiful Bad
Jessmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Ashley Warlick
The Distance From the Heart of Things
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Corner That Held Them
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
The Little Stranger
The Paying Guests
Brad Watson
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
Larry Watson
Montana 1948
Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes
Something Under the Bed is Drooling
Yukon Ho!
Weirdos from Another Planet
The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
The Days Are Just Packed
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
There's Treasure Everywhere
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
It's a Magical World
Stephanie Powell Watts
No One is Coming to Save Us
We Are Taking Only What We Need
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
The Loved One
Katharine Weber
The Little Women
The Memory of All That
The Music Lesson
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Still Life with Monkey
Triangle
David Weeks and Jamie James
Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
Josh Weil
The New Valley
Fay Weldon
Chalcot Crescent
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Rebecca West
H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica
The Invisible Man
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Time Machine
Tono-Bungay
Rebecca Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Little Altars Everywhere
John Welter
Begin to Exit Here (twice)
I Want to Buy a Vowel
Night of the Avenging Blowfish
Eudora Welty
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
Delta Wedding
The Optimist’s Daughter
The Ponder Heart
Barbara Wersba
The Dream Watcher (twice)
Mary Wesley
The Camomile Lawn
Harnessing Peacocks
Michael Lee West
American Pie
Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust
Miss Lonelyhearts
Rebecca West
The Birds Fall Down
Cousin Rosamund
The Fountain Overflows (twice)
Harriet Hume
The Harsh Voice
The Judge (twice)
The Return of the Soldier
The Thinking Reed
This Real Night
War Nurse
Tara Westover
Educated: A Memoir
Garret Weyr
Pretty Girls
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
Bunner Sisters
The Children
The Custom of the Country
Ethan Frome
The Glimpses of the Moon
The House of Mirth (twice)
The Old Maid: The 'Fifties
Roman Fever and Other Stories
William Wharton
Birdy
Pride
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon and Chris Samnee
Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale
Richard S. Wheeler
Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
Dorothy Whipple
The Priory
Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Animators
Bailey White
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel
T. H. White
The Once and Future King
Colson Whitehead
Underground Railroad
Zone One
James Whorton, Jr.
Frankland
Joan Wickersham
The Paper Anniversary
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
Elie Wiesel
Night
Marianne Wiggins
Evidence of Things Unseen
James Wilcox
Guest of a Sinner
Miss Undine's Living Room
Modern Baptists
North Gladiola
Sort of Rich
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods
Farmer Boy
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Kate Wilhelm
The Good Children
Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Crystal Wilkinson
The Birds of Opulence
Lauren Wilkinson
American Spy
Jincy Willett
The Writing Class
John Williams
Butcher's Crossing
Stoner
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Connie Willis
All Clear
Blackout
Doomsday Book
I Met a Traveler in an Antique Land
Lincoln's Dreams
Passage
To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
Harriet E. Wilson
Our Nig

Josephine Wilson
Extinctions
Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman
Brenda Wineapple
The Impeachers

Anna Winger
This Must Be the Place
Sarah Winman
When God was a Rabbit
Raynor Winn
The Salt Path
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Sexing the Cherry
Weight
Owen Wister
The Virginian
Virginia L. Wolf
Louise Fitzhugh
Gene Wolfe
Home Fires
Inger Ash Wolfe
The Calling
Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Thomas Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again
Tobias Wolff
Back in the World
The Barracks Thief
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Old School
This Boy's Life
Meg Wolitzer
The Interestings
The Wife
Cyril Wong
Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light
James Wood
How Fiction Works
Daniel Woodrell
Winter's Bone
Susan Woodring
Springtime on Mars
Bob Woodward
Fear: Trump in the White House
Leonard Woolf
The Wise Virgins
Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts
Jacob's Room
Mrs. Dalloway (multiple times)
Orlando
A Room of Her Own
To the Lighthouse (three times)
The Voyage Out
The Waves
The Years
Lawrence Wright
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Richard Wright
Native Son
Stephen Wright
The Amalgamation Polka
John Wyndham
The Chrysalids
The Day of the Triffids
The Midwich Cuckoos
Hanya Yanagihara
The People in the Trees
Tiphanie Yanique
Land of Love and Drowning
Steve Yarbrough
Safe from the Neighbors
Rafael Yglesias
Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil
Dwight Yoakam
A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words
Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace
Young Hearts Crying
Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
Armageddon Summer
Paul Zindel
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
My Darling, My Hamburger (three times)
The Pigman (three times)
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Emile Zola
Germinal
Therese Raquin
Eric Zuesse
Christ's Ventriloquists: the Event that Created Christianity
Leni Zumas
Red Clocks
Stefan Zweig
The Post-Office Girl